Finishing the year…

Well…I was going to do a political one to end the year…or maybe a wrap up on how bad the year has been..but then I saw the coolest sunset in the way home and could almost smile again…it was filled with blues, pinks, purples, and reds and all I could do was marvel at how neat it was….and I won at pool for the first time in 4 weeks but we both were really off our games but it was still fun…turned the car over to 291 thousand miles on the way home and I think there may be something there but I don’t know what that is…..okay…this was kind of a filler to get to the goal but it meant something to me so maybe that’s enough? Happy New Year and I’ll talk to you tomorrow…

December 31st

Well….it’s the last day of the year and I really don’t know what the significance is….it seems that all of my days just run together and it is just a Saturday for me…it was an okay day yesterday but nothing happened other than coffee and newspapers…I did have cocktails last night so I don’t feel that hot today but I will get a ride in this morning that will help..the Wings looked bad last night and lost to the Blackhawks but they play again tonight so maybe they can redeem themselves…I did have dreams last night but they were crappy so I won’t share right now…not much to do today…just going to hunker down here and hang out for the day and night..might clean some but I’m not really motivated to do that right now…it’s a good thought but that’s just it…a thought, nothing else…I will be back later for one more since I need it to make the quota…I do need to get back to Man U since they are behind to Blackburn…yow…

Let’s do some sports…

Well…it is a big sports weekend so I thought I’d just noodle around a little and comment on a few things that have caught my eye and that are rattling around in my head. First…when have they ever moved the college bowl games from January 1st? It is just too weird to have all of the games on the 2nd and have pro games on the 1st….but it is cool to have the Lions playing the Packers Sunday…and a friend of mine is going to be in the stands at Lambeau Field in the cold and I hope she has fun…it looks like the Packers are going to rest a lot of their starters so we may have a chance to get to an 11-5 season which would be really cool. The Wings have been playing well at times but I really want to see what they can do if they play a whole game instead of just parts of them….but, their record over the last 15 is pretty good so I guess I shouldn’t bitch too much…and they play Chicago tonight which I am really looking forward to and to the game tomorrow which is a rematch with the Blues from Tuesday night…one that we won but it was a trial at times. Okay, that’s enough for this one…I may come back and add to it if something strikes me…if it does, I hope it doesn’t hurt…

Have to comment on ole Nolan…

Well…I was just reading the Detroit News (yeah, I know, it will rot my brain but I do need topics) and a little article from ole Nolan caught my eye for its nonsense that blames Democrats and liberals for the financial problems that beset Detroit. Nolan, Nolan, Nolan….how stupid are you? I will admit that Detroit has been looted by mismanagement over the years and has never been a model for good government, but, to blame the loss of population and the shipping of jobs overseas on the democrats is to blame the victim for having his life stolen from him. It is the republican party’s pro business policies that have led to outsourcing; to moving auto jobs to Mexico taking millions of other support jobs that used to pay a living wage but now, what jobs are left, don’t pay enough to pay taxes on let alone add to the tax base that has fled. So, Nolan, your anti labor and anti human screeds are getting tiring…how can you have so much hate inside and still call yourself a human being? Geez….

December 30th

Well…had a pretty nice day yesterday with lunch with T being the highlight and then a few cocktails last night so I feel a little crappy today…not really, just tired from the poor sleep and flopping around all night. It’s almost another month gone and still no bites on the job front and I am getting numb from the process….I hope that January will be better and someone will think that I have something to offer….still haven’t given up hope but it does get harder every day to keep a happy face on it…oh, well….not much to do today…I do have to go back to Meijers since I came into some money yesterday and I need coffee and some other stuff…but that is about it…the Wings do play tonight so that will be something to look forward to and it looks like I’ll be able to get a bike ride in, too so maybe it won’t be such a bad day…more later…

Maybe the Republicans are getting some sense….

Well…there is not much going on with politics but the Iowa nonsense with the repubs but I can’t believe that there is so much time and attention being expended on this weird, throwback of a process. When you do the math, the whole caucus there and all of the votes amount to less than one-half of one percent of the total electorate in the US and the winner comes out thinking that he or she is presidential material and has earned a mandate to continue. But that is not what this is about…this is supposed to be about the repubs getting some sense and abandoning the idiot Newt for the nonsense he has been spouting…now, ole Newt may be right at home in a Dickens novel, but he is certainly not presidential material and it looks like even the hard right that controls the elections in Iowa has wised up to that fact. Well…maybe I’m wrong that they’ve gotten smarter…since they have pushed Rick Santorum to second place in the polls and have even kept Ron Paul in the running…this could be fun to watch if you like slow-motion crashes….I know, not too lucid but I’m really trying so bear with me a while…if I don’t get better then abandon me…

December 29th

Well….it was the most low key day yesterday with staying in for the whole day…even skipped coffee to save a few dollars and will do the same thing today…I do have to go out and spend the minimum on food…going to try to keep it under 20 bucks including cocktail material and I will be eating out of the freezer but I’m not sure I can take a diet of fish and turkey soup…but I guess I’ll have to….had some weird dreams last night that included running a marathon in 3 hours and 7 minutes and then it snowed and I was riding my bike….not as weird as normal but close….not much to do today….groceries, of course, then out on the bike if it gets warm enough…and I am going to get caught up today since I’m running out of time to get to the goal….more later…

Everyone’s doing fine but the workers…

Well…this one just popped into my head about an article that I saw a few days ago that said that the current congress is the richest one in the history of the country with the current crop’s net worth being 10 times the average Americans, and this points to one of the problems that I see with the country right now: that everyone but the workers are doing well. Corporations have the highest highest retained earnings of any time in history and CEO pay is at it’s highest in relation to worker’s pay since statistics have been kept…why doesn’t anyone connect the dots here? We have the rich in congress making laws for the rich bought and paid for by corporations that have done nothing but stagnate the income of the middle class (or, in real dollars have shrunk the income of the middle) and we wonder why no one is spending, we wonder why the economy can’t stop sputtering and start to move again? Until the middle gets a true share of their contribution to the economy and the rich stop taking more and more, we are doomed to just idle, to look at tiny slivers of hope and blow them out of proportion just because we want to believe that the American dream still exists…I’ve got news for you….it’s already gone…geez….

December 28th

Well…had a little fun last night with going out to watch the Wings with M and they even won…but ran through the rest of the cash I had so it looks like I’m going to be staying in this morning and skipping coffee…might not be a bad idea anyway. I do need to get those resumes out and work out..but it looks like no bike ride today since it is going to be cold and icy and I really don’t wan to crash and burn…and maybe the boredom will motivate me to get a few of these out today and even be a little lucid…but possibly that is a little too much to ask…not much to do today…as I said, no coffee or papers today…I did kind of go over that already didn’t I? So, I’ll end it here and just say more later…

This one is cheating…

Well…can you tell that I am getting a little desperate here trying to get to my goals? I did have an okay day today and I thought I’d get one more out before I go out to watch the Wings game with Micah….I did get a bunch of stuff done today and that included going out for a couple with G….and she gave me a bunch of cookies she made for Christmas…not normally a sweets person but it will be nice to have a snack later tonight….okay…I am feeling really guilty about this one so maybe I won’t count it….and it is getting time to go out the door so I have to find my gear and start getting ready….it is kind of hared when the idiots in Washington are out of town…just no new stupidity for me to comment on….